I'm just wondering how much of that new Pillars image has been photoshopped. The lens flares, the sharp(ened?) contours, the contrast, it seems like an awful lot of processing was done on this image, it looks kind of posterized, and I wonder what the original looked like before they decided to make it look "better". Or is this really the raw image that came out of the telescope?

Only they wouldn't be able to see any intelligent life here, since we didn't exist yet two million years ago. By the time they can actually see us, we may have gone extinct.

Not really. Air France pilots speak French when flying over France. Spanish pilots speak Spanish in Spain. Russians speak Russian in countries where Russian is spoken. Etcetera.

This has caused quite a few accidents already (for example, planes being cleared for take-off in the local language while another plane was crossing that runway completely unaware) but the practice continues, unfortunately. It's silly really: air traffic controllers speak English with foreign pilots, and the pilots speak English when abroad, but for some reason they insist on using their own language at home. Some even claim it's safer that way, go figure.

Nah, Esperanto is going to win this hands down

Science cannot prove the existence of flying pink elephants either.

It's not just the cabin that needs to be heated. The battery heating system consumes a fair bit of power on very cold days. You'd think they would heat up enough from just being used to power the car, but apparently heating is still necessary and affects range quite a bit.

You cheated using tachyons.

That's not true, it's perfectly possible to access EFI and pretty much anything else. All you need is a rogue Thunderbolt device, and...

Yes, this is really only a problem for those who download and 3D-print USB devices from the Pirate Bay. Honest people who pay for their stuff will not be affected.

Water is H2O, methane is CH4. You can certainly have seas of methane on Titan, but they are not "bodies of water".

How about fake rhino horn laced with a drug that reduces sexual appetite. That might work.

Yep, and they also promote things that hurt the environment. Here in belgium they were actually encouraging people to burn woord for heating, since wood was renewable. Then they suddenly realised how much fine dust and smog was being created by those wood stoves. Oops.

And don't get me started on nuclear power. New designs are perfectly safe and produce almost no waste, yet we can't build them because nuclear power is supposedly dangerous and creates waste that will poison the planet forever. So, for lack of alternatives, we keep extending the life of older plants until they blow up. And we try to replace them with renewables that actually pollute more. Those solar panels don't grow on trees. More people have been killed in the construction of wind turbines than in nuclear accidents. Oh, well, looks like I've gotten myself started. I'll stop now.

Nah, it was a genuine mistake. They've already laid down a new set of big yellow letters saying "We are truly sorry for disturbing your national heritage site. Greepeace."

And then get sued for violating the DMCA.

If you have to send more data (bigger files), you need more servers. A single server can only handle a certain maximum amount of data transfer, right? I thought that was pretty obvious, but maybe I'm missing something?